Oil and Gas Forecasting

'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the workings of the oil and gas industry or in issues of world or national resource-assessment 'David Barr, Geol. Mag.

• Reflections of a petroleum geologist; The oil company research laboratory; The US Geological Survey; The exploration play; The economists; DISCOVERY RATE FORECASTING: PART 1: The Permian Basin; DISCOVERY RATE FORECASTING: PART 2: The Gulf of Mexico offshore; The parent population of oil and gas fields is log-geometric; Exhaustion of the resource base and the future supply of oil and gas; Quantitatitive mineral-resource assessment.